The only good progressive

When I first saw the title I expected a different punchline. But now I’ll have to steal the joke for my own purposes someday. That also reminded me of a reminder-to-myself from years back to check out the Electro Hippies (that was before youtube). Now that that’s over with, I see no reason to do so again.

On an unrelated note, Keith Preston just alerted me to Ethel of the Lioness’ Den, which focuses on anarcho-pluralism. I like the emphasis on Sealand-esqe “micronation”, helping to head off the objection that national-anarchism is oxymoronic. Going further than Michael Hart’s multiracialist-friendly racial separatism, the paradigm could also handle Vichy’s objection on perceived kinship with others by including scope for “micronations” of anti-nationalist egoists. Stirner sort of alluded to that sort of thing with his Union of Egoists (which does not seem to run afoul of Bob Black’s (and my own) anarchy problem). Stirner seemed to envision something more temporary to serve the temporary interests of the individuals entering into it, but even that can have a physical/geographic governance analogue.

I must have missed where Etheleona discussed HBD, though I guess it isn’t surprising.

Vichy has a blog you might want to check out. Actually, two. Assuming she’s for real, that would make her the only female and/or asian I’ve come across that’s into Stirner. Of course, I don’t come across that many Stirnerites.

I like your neologism: “melanite”. You should try telling people its a lost tribe referenced in the Book of Mormon to see if anyone buys it.

I’d never heard of Desmond Dekker before. Britain has had more than its fair share of musical exports, but their reggae didn’t cross over to my side of the pond. I understand they often used coded words, so that Babylon = Britain or any degenerate society, so an Israelite is presumably one not of Babylon.

In this case, I don’t think it’s a coded reference: he says he wrote the song about the toil of everyday life after hearing a couple arguing in the park. Thematically, it’s nothing incendiary. Catchy as hell though!